ISO 50001 and Assessor for Data Centre Energy Efficiency

ISO 50001:2011, is the International Standards Organisation (ISO) standard for an organisation’s energy management system. As a comprehensive management system it can complement or integrate with other corporate management systems, such as ISO 140001 and ISO 9001.

The standard incorporates all aspects of best practice associated with energy efficiency and management and is likely to develop into the standard of attainment for organisations globally.

Assessor is the pre-eminent management tool for assessment and ongoing management of energy efficiency programmes for data centres. Based on the evolving recommended guidelines of the European Union, as formalised in the EU Code of Conduct on Data Centres Energy Efficiency, Assessor provides a methodology and guidance for implementing a basis of adherence for an organisation’s data centre against the recommended and recognised best practice. Te benefits of such activities can be measured in reduced cost, increased performance or many other different aspects.

As a highly specific purpose built facility, a data centre has a defined set of requirements that must be considered in any corporate energy management system, such as ISO 50001, and Assessor provides the framework for such considerations to be implemented.

Assessor enables organisations looking at implementing an energy management system to comprehensively encompass the requirements of their data centre and IT facilities with industry-accepted recommendations that are comparable to the requirements of the impending ISO 50001 standard.

In summary, Assessor can be used to incorporate data centre and IT facilities into a more wide reaching corporate energy management programme.

Learn more about Assessor for Data Centre Energy Efficiency and how to benefit from implementing the EU's recommended best practices in an energy management system environment.

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